Raspberry Pi 3 Rolls Out With Faster CPU, On-Board Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth

An anonymous reader writes: The original Raspberry Pi went on sale four years ago, and more than 8,000,000 units have shipped since then. Raspberry Pi computers are used in schools and universities, in factories and other industrial applications, in home automation and hobby projects, and much more. Today the Raspberry Pi 3 was announced, featuring a 64-bit quad-core ARMv8 CPU clocked at 1.2GHz, making it roughly 10x the speed of the original Pi 1. Many people will be pleased to hear that the Raspberry Pi 3 also features on-board Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, greatly improving the device's connectivity. The new device goes on sale today at the usual price of US $35. (Here's the official announcement itself.)

Comments

Ethernet

[arth1]

But still the same ethernet that goes over the USB bus?

Re:Ethernet

[Christian Smith]

But still the same ethernet that goes over the USB bus?

And? A 100Mbps ethernet interface is fine over the 480 Mbps USB2 bus. You're not going to be running an enterprise NAS on this thing now, are you?

The original USB ethernet had problems with the poly-fuses blowing out under load. That's not a problem now with later Pis.

Re:Awesome

[Anonymous Coward]

Also, I still cant get my hands on a pi zero.

Try Coke Zero. Available at any grocery store.

Re:Awesome

[silas_moeckel]

Try an ESP 8266 for interfacing a garage door you need what a few inputs and a handful of outputs?

Re:Awesome

[Thanshin]

Also, I still cant get my hands on a pi zero.

Check your retailer. You can get a zero for every two PI.

R.

Re:Awesome

[Anonymous Coward]

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in bed with satan

[nimbius]

BCM43438 wireless âoecomboâ chip.

Kill yourself. As a veteran Linux sysadmin seeing BCM in the lsmod or lspci for ANY machine is enough to make me dive out a window and head for the hills. Broadcom wireless --christ even broadcom wired -- is a whole other level of shit-tier performance in Linux. enjoy your frozen interfaces and unsupported modes.

To the Pi team: Why god why couldnt you have chosen something like an Intel or atheros?

Re:in bed with satan

[bigdady92]

The founder of Pi worked at Broadcom, Broadcom gave them buttloads of code and chips for next to nothing, therefore it made 100% sense to build a board that is simple and easy to use based on this type of cheap and well known tech. Broadcom is using the Pi as a springboard into other projects using the whole Razor vs. Razor Blade methodology of sales. Broadcom may be making very thin margins but they are still making some profit on the chips and boards.

Intel already tried build a Pi type board, it doesn't have anywhere near the amount of applications the Pi does so why bother using it?

Re: Awesome

[Anonymous Coward]

Specifically the GL-inet 6416 has dual ethernet, 2.4GHz wifi, one USB socket, a MIPS processor (Atheros AR9330) with 64 megabytes of RAM and 16 megabytes of flash, and 5 easily accessible GPIOs. It's not much, but it's good cheap fun.

Re:Awesome

[shortscruffydave]

Check your retailer. You can get a zero for every two PI.

YMMV - for two Pi I get 6.283185307179586476925286766559

Re:Hype?

[Crowd Computing]

These two sentences alone make me chose any of the innumerable competitor products, rather than R-Pi.

It's funny how people go on about "competitor products" but never bother naming them.

Probably because whenever they do, it turns out that they're either not comparable on price or on specs.

Actually there are many Chinese ARM-based development boards and "mini PCs" with much, much better specs. The problem is that they tend to use SoCs designed by some mainland Chinese semiconductor company which refuse, or at least ignore requests, to release even the GPL'ed kernel sources for the chip. Compared to these companies, Broadcom is almost saintly.

Re:Awesome

[Richard Dick Head]

Ugh...you meatspace engineers and your radians, butchering the beauty and purity of geometry. Clearly you've never enjoyed a spherical hamburger of uniform density in a vaccum.

So?

[goombah99]

But still the same ethernet that goes over the USB bus?

You complain about this like it's a show stopping defect. For the few people who care about this, then there's alternatives to rasp PI. But for the vast majority of people, empirically, this is not a problem. Given the Raspi only has a gigbyte of memory or half that, where the heck are you going to put your data after 10 seconds at a gigabit?

Next you will complain your toaster having only 10Mb/set wifi is a major lifestyle issue.

Re:Awesome

[Gaygirlie]

No, where did you read that the ESP8266 only has 1 GPIO? That's totally incorrect, it has 11 GPIO and you can have 2 more if you get one of the modules where two of the pins going to the flash - chip are cut or you cut them yourself for a total of 13 GPIO - pins. There is also one analog input pin. Also, you can run a web-interface on them, if you want to.

I have several ESP8266's myself and they are fabulous little devices and perfect for uses like this because they are so small, they use very little power and the built-in WiFi means you don't need any dongles or anything like that to make network-connected sensors and controllers. I have a small 2.8" colour LCD with touchscreen connected to an ESP with temperature/humidity - sensor, a PIR motion - sensor and a few more sensors in my use, and it works great.

Re:Please give us 64-bit OS, too

[psergiu]

VideoCore4 cannot access more than 1Gb of RAM
And on the RPi, VC4 acts like a Northbridge - the ARM cores will do all RAM and IO access trough the VC4.
So unless Boradcom updates VideoCore with more address lines, All RPis will have max 1Gb or RAM.

Re:Awesome

[fyngyrz]

What's your angle, buddy?